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How I Can Help You
Transform your organization by aligning intention with impact.
Coaching
Long term contracts prolonging over 6 months. 2 hour group sessions spanning over several weeks
● Coach, Podcaster & Author
Aligning Intention to Impact
Every engagement begins with understanding your organization’s specific context, goals,
and challenges. We’ll collaborate to design an approach that honors your team’s readiness
while advancing meaningful change.
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Ayisha Elliott | Who is She?
Ayisha is an Executive and Relational Leadership Coach who brings over 25 years of experience challenging systemic inequities through collaborative, relationship-centered approaches. As the content producer of the podcast Black Girl From Eugene, award-winning columnist, and sought-after public speaker, she creates spaces for authentic dialogue about relational leadership approaches, inclusion, and organizational transformation.
Ayisha’s work is grounded in activism while her approach is through a trauma lens using a therapeutic approach. This allows her to meet leaders and their organizations where they are while persistently challenging the status quo. Her holistic approach to developing inclusive work environments recognizes that sustainable change happens through deep cultural shifts, not surface-level interventions.
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220+ episodes published
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Higher education in Psychology and Neuroscience
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New Author Places Unexpected
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Top 50 Future of Black America
● New book
Being Creative
Ayisha’s life long passion for writing has her led to becoming an award winning columnist and published author. Writing professionally didn’t become a reality until after the murder of George Floyd and Ayisha’s need to express the anguish of the times as her own body healed from police brutality.
Utilizing her professional background in Anti Racism, she writes once a month for United Way, on identity formation of Black children while being raised by white parents
Ayisha writes weekly in Substack
First memoir, Places Unexpected is set to debut Spring of 2027.
Popular Topics
Dismantling the Culture of White Supremacy
Discover and dismantle proven organizational norms that interrupt genuine relationship between leadership and staff.
Topics include, but are not limited to
Personal barriers to effective Leadership
Discover what in you makes difference hard to hold, and turn it into the leadership your team has been waiting for
Topics include, but are not limited to
Trauma, Loss, and Transformation
Loss changes us, and together we explore how to carry what hurts while discovering what can grow from it.
Topics include, but are not limited to
Client Testimonials
Being Intentional has helped thousands of people create spaces that reflect shared values, reduce harm and increase potentiality . Here’s what a few of them think.
“Ayisha was an invaluable partner in shaping and implementing our organizational equity strategy, from equitable hiring and conflict management to executive leadership, organizational culture, and co-producing impactful community events.”
Nuturely
Emily Little, PHD
Founder
Ayisha challenged us to think differently about how we lead, communicate, and create safe, accessible, and equitable learning environments for young adults. Her work didn’t end when the training ended. Staff reported stronger relationships not only with students and colleagues, but also in their personal lives. I continue to carry what I learned from Ayisha into my leadership, decision-making, and everyday interactions! She is one of the most influential professional development facilitators I’ve had the privilege of working with!
Network Charter
Penny Studt, Executive Director, Network Charter
I asked Ayisha Elliott to start writing a version of her Black Girl From Eugene podcast for the newspaper after listening to her speak and seeing the power of her writing and the need for her perspective to be heard. In its first year, her column received a national award, competing against weekly papers across the country. Ayisha is easy to work with and edit and always has something thoughtful, passionate and pertinent to say.
Eugene Weekly
Camilla Mortensen
Editor, Owner
Client Testimonials
Being Intentional has helped thousands of people create spaces that reflect shared values, reduce harm and increase potentiality. Here’s what a few of them think.
“Ayisha Elliott has been an extraordinary teacher for me. She is clear, direct, insightful, and supportive. My project benefitted enormously from her presence and her contributions.”
Heather Wertheimer
Musician
Ayisha keeps it real, & keeps it honest! She will show you what transparent conversations sound like while maintaining a safe space & encouraging folks to be courageous and kind! Endure the silence to embrace the discomfort together!
VP of Human Resources, Looking Glass
Christy Mafoti
Ayisha’s work with Network Charter School has been transformative. From helping us examine and strengthen policies through an equity and anti-racist lens to facilitating some of the most impactful professional development our staff has experienced, her influence has been both meaningful and lasting. Her work has strengthened our school community, improved relationships, and fundamentally shaped how we approach leadership, communication, and creating safe, accessible, equitable learning environments for young adults.
Special Education Coordinator
Heather Hickcox
● Speaking
Book Ayisha for Your Next Event
Challenge conventional thinking and ignite transformative growth with a speaking experience that pushes boundaries while empowering your team to reach new heights. As a catalyst for change, I deliver compelling presentations that blend thought-provoking concepts with bold perspectives on relational leadership, inviting audiences to step beyond comfort zones into spaces of genuine possibility.
Audiences consistently depart with renewed purpose, empowered mindsets, and the courage to embrace bold new approaches to leadership and community building.
Contact for Booking
Direct Email
Black.girl.from.eugene@gmail.com
We welcome the opportunity to schedule a meeting to better understand your specific needs to explore potential collaboration
Speaking & Press
Keynotes, workshops and interview requests please include date and local time zone.
Response Time
Please allow 24-48 hour response time to all inquiries.
More than one Truth – Podcast
Tune into Ayisha’s podcast cohosted with her daughter Barbara titled More than One Truth, where they talk about their lives after moving abroad to Spain and everything in between love, race, belonging with humor and honesty. Same story, Two Truths